Asian category: 13860 books
Trance-Migrations
Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn’t. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order...
Japanese Dolls
The fascinating World of Ningyo
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Japanese Dolls: The Fascinating World of Ningyo, is a wealth of information for Japanese art collectors, Asian doll collectors and doll enthusiasts of all levels and interests.
Full of beautiful photographs, the book details 18 kinds of widely collected, obtainable and affordable, antique and...
Fighting Shadows in Vietnam
A Combat Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In this memoir, set as deeply in his mind as in the Southeast Asian jungle, a young American soldier embarks on a journey to a war that, for him, will never be over. The world was a playground for Mickey, a naïve Irish American kid bored with his life. His father served in World War II, his brother...
Medicine, Trade and Empire
Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where...
Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan
Spies and "Terrorists"
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
As the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath influence new developments in spy fiction as a popular genre, an examination of these literary narratives concerned with espionage and terrorism can reshape our approach to non-fictive representations of the same concerns.
Post-9/11 Espionage...
Coproducing Asia
Locating Japanese–Chinese Regional Film and Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction, all the while introducing...
Inexorable Modernity
Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority...
by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"The first full–length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs
Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential...
by Phillip Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In 1938 the New York-based Institute of Current World Affairs awarded 23-year-old Phillips Talbot a fellowship with a mandate: visit South Asia and learn about the intricacies of life in India. Till 1950, Talbot graphically recounted the buildup to Indian and Pakistani independence, and the early...
by Peter Francis Kornicki
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 1.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
NOTE: Volume 1 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 1.1 and 1.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 2.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context
Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan Relations...
by Mark Wiley, Steven Dowd, Majia Soderholm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
There has been a lack of reliable academic studies regarding Filipino martial arts (FMA) that have uniquely developed in the Philippine archipelago. This anthology assembles pioneering scholarly materials valuable for any interested in the Filipino combatives, as well as...